[Zope] Mysterious Netscape Upload failure

Tres Seaver tseaver@palladion.com
Thu, 30 Mar 2000 16:02:00 -0600


After banging my head on it for a couple of days, I just resolved a really ugly
problem for any Zopista who uses Netscape:  any form which contains a file
upload button was timing out, failing to send data to Zope (e.g., I couldn't
create DTMLMethods!).

The underlying cause of this was Netscape's poor tempfile hygeine:  their file
upload control handler was creating tempfiles, which it then never bothered to
clean up.  Eventually, it exhausted the tempfile namespace, at which point it
looped pointlessly trying to create a tempfile with an unused name.

I tried several reinstalls, tweaked preferences, all to no avail.  The solution
was to scrub the temp dir of all the ns*.tmp files -- everything is hunky-dory,
now.

Looking-for-the-voodoo-doll'ly,

Tres.
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